Francisco d'Anconia
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You forgot "Rinse, Repeat..."penkitten said:
"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
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"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
Maxtro
Master Don Juan
"Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy" - Dr. Robert Kelso (Scrubs)
“The 22 Rules That Flip the Script With Women… And How You Can Use Them Tonight”
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
T-Roy
Don Juan
"Don't wait, act"- Quote by every good Don Juan out there.
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely, in one handsome and well-preserved piece. You should slide broadside across that finish line, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, and shouting, "Geronimo!"
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"Those who live by the sword, get shot by those who don't."
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Love that... I was gonna post that exact same thingCr1msonKing said:
but great minds think alike eh "Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
Serialized3
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I love being in my 20s in 2007 where this no longer applies.KarmaSutra said:
Serialized3
Master Don Juan
Mine:
"I want a truth for which I can live and die"
--Søren Kierkegaard
"I want a truth for which I can live and die"
--Søren Kierkegaard
"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
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Which explains why you're content being her girlfriend.Serialized3 said:
Serialized3
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Yeah, a girlfriend that gets to fuck her no strings attached.KarmaSutra said:
Serialized3
Master Don Juan
Because anymore, girls in their late teens/early 20s (particularly college girls) often just want to have no-strings-attached sex, most often with male friends that they feel comfortable around (like me).DonJuan11 said:
"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer."
"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer."
"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help"
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Serialized3 said:
Be quite certain that your "girlfriend" is having other guys clutter up her butter gutter without any strings.
How do those fellas' nutbutter taste by proxy? You'll probably come back with some nonsense about that not being true or that you don't go down on her or some other such rubbish but the fact is you're ingesting whatever guy was behind you in stabbing this cvm receptacle.
Hope he didn't eat asparagus :nono: .
"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.